Clean Clean Clean

So, since Thomas and I have arrived in Phoenix we have successfully moved into our new home, Thomas has begun working for the Mayo Clinic Hospital (yay!) and I have started to work remotely.

While adjusting to our new surroundings and new work arrangements we also have to juggle making our house into our home. Before we bought it, our house was used as a rental property and was treated like a rental property :( The carpets were disgusting, the pool was a mess, the toilet was rusty.... this place just lacked some major TLC.

The first thing we did was hire a cleaning company! What a lifesaver! It would have taken the two of us all day to clean this place! Everything needed to be wiped off, sanitized, swept, mopped, etc. There was dog hair everywhere and dust had settled in the few months that it had been vacant. Plus, (and this may just be me) I get the eebie jeebies thinking about what invisible germies I might be coming in contact with when cleaning up after Lord knows who.

Two wonderful women from a local MaidPro scrubbed the inside of the house from top to bottom while Thomas and I focused on getting things off of our moving truck. That saved us sooo much time! Anytime we move in the future (and hopefully those moves won't be numerous) we intend to have a cleaning service come through to prep the place for us.

Bye Cali!

So in March, Thomas and I finally found out where we will be for the next 4 years! Thomas "matched" into the Mayo Clinic Neurology program! We are all so proud of him... all of his extremely hard work has paid off!
We were very excited at the idea of being able to start our new life somewhere different. Both of us spent most of our lives in California and we thought that there would be no better time to pick up and move to another state than now. We had no house, no kids, nothing that could really hold us back. Besides, it's only for 4 years.
I dove right in to looking for an apartment in the area and played with the idea of renting a house. When I saw how inexpensive housing was here I decided to look into how much real estate was here. To our happy surprise, we could afford a house!

We came out to Phoenix on the weekend and looked at a couple of houses. The whole thing happened so quick! On Tuesday we were talking about the possibility of buying a house, on Friday we were looking at houses, on Sunday we were making an offer on one! Wow, mind-boggling!

Through much stress and headaches, two months later we had a house!

We've got a lot of work to do on this place to make it our own... but I'll be using this blog to post updates and new pictures. I'm getting a lot of inspiration from a couple who write the blog younghouselove.com.... I love it.

Anyway, we're in Phoenix and loving it so far. We miss our families but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we plan on taking full advantage of our many new and exciting adventures out here!